inspirational quotes about hope

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. ~Stanley Milgram



Guys are like roses. You've got to watch out for the pricks. ~Author Unknown



College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? ~David Wood



It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Mirror of Erised," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown



I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass



There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811



The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)



When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



I talk to God but the sky is empty. ~Sylvia Plath



History is a vast early warning system. ~Norman Cousins



The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~Bob Uecker



Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius



If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula Le Guin



The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ~Simone de Beauvoir



Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift. ~Author Unknown



Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot